Our Story

Hi.  I spent part of my youth and all of my adult life exploring different cultures, asking deep questions about what it means to belong and connect, and putting that wisdom into action.  Along the way, I learned about antiracism  and allyship by working with some of the most consistent, effective,  sustained antiracist activists around.  It resonated so deeply with me because at its core it was about making space for people so that they can grow and blossom.  It wasn't about spreading a load of manure, it was about nurturing people with what they really needed to flourish 

I love gardens because they are places of beauty precisely because not everything there is the same.  There is room for big and small, for every color, age, and stage, for the cultivated, the rare, and the wild.  There is no single, right style of garden, but having a great one means taking time and giving things what they need to thrive whether or not they are the "same."  It is a wonderful analogy for investing in the places we want to work, live and play.

The work of Terra Firma Cultural is guided by principles of appreciative inquiry and allyship.  What you want to create is up to YOU. Our job is to help you create it by cultivating the awareness, abundance, and action orientation needed to get to wherever you want to go either as an organization or an individual seeking growth that leads you to flourish.

We work with you in ways that are collaborative and generative: 

• We dig deep, asking tough questions to get at what really matters the most and what you and your team need to grow as individually and collectively.
• We plant seeds of inspiration for what and how you and your team can be in the world.
• We provide support - through coaching, cohort programs, and workshops - needed to nourish that best, most lush, most verdant version of yourself. 

Help clients cultivate spaces of belonging and inspiration so amazing people can grow and blossom.

We've all been there, that challenging space where it is just HARD to "grow where you're planted."  We've been that "lonely little petunia in an onion patch," so  we know there is a difference between surviving and thriving, between cultivated, sometimes wild beauty and letting the weeds take over.

We trust that employers want what's best for their employees and that individual can tell what is best for themselves. 

So, whether it is helping organizations embrace ways to help all of their people flourish, nourishing leaders so they can grow to their potential and do more for others, or helping people plan whole new ways of working, living and playing, our mission is to create the sense of belonging that allows people to put down roots and blossom.